'Girl on Beach' (2010), archival pigment print, part of 'Jack Spencer: Beyond the Surface' at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts through Oct. 13.

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MiChelle Jones
| For The Tennessean

"I like the idea that my work covers a very broad spectrum," Jack Spencer said recently at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. "That sometimes you look at my work and you can't tell that I'm the same guy that photographed that, that photographed that, that photographed that," he said pointing around the gallery, "because every instance is different."

Spencer's photographs are the subject of "Beyond the Surface," an exhibition organized by the Frist Center and remaining on view through Oct. 13.

The 70 images span nearly 20 years of the photographer's work and range from sweeping views of the ...